PowerShell: Get Security Updates List From Microsoft By Month/Product/KB/CVE With API

I am a regular at my local PowerShell user group. I keenly look forward to our monthly meetings. We share a lot amongst ourselves. It is a small but close-knit group. Recently, one of the members, Julie came up with a coding challenge for the group. This blog post is about the challenge. My solution …

PowerShell: Resolve Partial File Paths To Full Paths

My Use-case: I am building a continuous integration tool using PowerShell for deploying scripts/database files (like .sql, .rdl, .xmla etc) to SQL Server/Oracle with all the bells and whistles (over a hundred PowerShell functions so far 🙂 ). It needed a file path resolution functionality that is somewhat flexible. I decided to share the file …

PowerShell: Abort after encountering [x] errors within the last minute

This short article is about how to abort out of your PowerShell loop if you have encountered [x] errors within the last minute. The technique can be reapplied to any similar situation. Before I elaborate on how this is done, I want to give Kudos to Brian Wilhite, my friend and organizer of Charlotte PowerShell user …